On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Dietmar Maurer <diet...@proxmox.com> wrote: >> Did you look at the VMDK "Stream-Optimized Compressed" subformat? >> >> http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vddk/vmdk_50_technote.pdf? >> src=vmdk > > Max file size 2TB?
That is for a single .vmdk file. But vmdks can also be split across multiple files ("extents") so you can get more than 2TB. QEMU has some support for reading vmdks with extents, but I think we never create files like this today. Stefan